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Chipmaker meets expectations
News The chipmaker's second-quarter net income totalled $32m, a nine cent per share profit, on revenue of $1.3bn for the quarter, which ended on 27 June. On average, 28 analysts polled by Thompson First Call expected AMD to report a nine cents per share...
[July 15, 2004, 14:35]
Chipmaker TSMC sees drop in quarterly profits
News Major contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has announced that its fourth-quarter income dropped 64 percent year-on-year, blaming a worldwide recession and a sharp drop in demand. The Taiwanese manufacturer makes semiconductors...
[January 23, 2009, 15:12]
European chipmaker strengthens Indian presence
News European chipmaker STMicroelectronics on Thursday opened its third design and development centre in India. The chipmaker already has approximately 1,400 researchers and chip designers in India. The new centre, an extension of the company's existing...
[February 20, 2004, 10:40]
Bluetooth chipmaker buys into GPS
News CSR has until now been known primarily as a Bluetooth chipmaker. A UK chip manufacturer is promising low-cost GPS for mobile phones in the near future, following its acquisition of two firms in the GPS field.
[January 15, 2007, 12:32]
Chipmaker gets a jump on safer wireless
News Atheros was the first chipmaker to begin shipping silicon using the 802.11a standard, another approved wireless networking standard. American company Altheros Communications has begun shipping the first chipset to run part of the new 802.11g fast...
[March 12, 2002, 17:09]
Motorola buys wireless chipmaker
News Motorola has bought wireless chipmaker XtremeSpectrum, in a move that could let it jump to market with superfast wireless broadband technology -- but could also give it a standards headache. The company said on Monday that it had purchased...
[November 11, 2003, 11:45]
Microtune doubles damages against rival chipmaker
News Chipmaker Microtune announced that it has won double the damages it sought in a patent infringement case against rival Broadcom. A jury found that a Broadcom tuner chip infringed on a patent owned by Microtune.
[August 18, 2003, 14:30]
Chipmaker wants to revive the free PC
News ZF Linux Devices is attempting to resurrect the free PC movement by cutting costs like never before. The 5-year-old company, which makes a low-cost microprocessor called the MachZ, has developed a blueprint for an inexpensive PC called the Z-Port.
[February 14, 2001, 8:47]
Transmeta sold to video-chipmaker Novafora
News Transmeta, a company that once hoped to rival Intel and AMD to power portable computers, announced on Monday that it would sell itself to Novafora for $255.6m in cash. Novafora said it hopes to use Transmeta's people and technology in its video...
[November 18, 2008, 9:01]
iPod chipmaker plans to cash in
News More recently, Carlsen was CFO at laptop chipmaker Transmeta. PortalPlayer, the Silicon Valley company whose chip powers the iPod, is looking to play its tune for Wall Street. PortalPlayer filed registration papers last week with the Securities and...
[August 12, 2004, 8:50]
UK chipmaker ships 10-millionth Bluetooth chip
News Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) said it has shipped its 10-millionth Bluetooth chip, the latest indication of the wireless technology's gradual rise into the mainstream. However, Bluetooth's ongoing success is increasingly being called into doubt by...
[May 29, 2003, 16:32]
Linux: A chipmaker's best friend
News In a sign of how strategic Linux has become, AMD and Intel are angling to lure open-source programmers to their future chip designs. Linux--with a strong developer community and a flexibility that allows the Unix clone to run on numerous chips--has...
[September 3, 2001, 8:41]
AMD vs Intel: The chips are down
News This week the gloves came off in the struggle between up-and-coming chipmaker AMD and market leader Intel. AMD filed a lawsuit against Intel in the US courts accusing the chipmaker of anticompetitive practices.
[June 29, 2005, 13:15]
AMD vs Intel spills over into Japan
News AMD's subsidiary in Japan has filed two lawsuits against Intel, claiming not just anti-competitive behaviour by its rival chipmaker, but in some cases down-right dirty tricks too. A representative with Intel was not immediately available to comment...
[June 30, 2005, 15:10]
AMD opens up chip design on two fronts
News The chipmaker now has five PC and server processor design teams of varying sizes. The chipmaker this summer established a new chip design team at its Boston Design Centre here, a continent away from its Silicon Valley base, as part of a worldwide...
[September 21, 2004, 14:25]
Intel boosts Pentium M power
News The chipmaker had been selling Pentium M chips at speeds of up to 1.6GHz. As expected, the chipmaker on Monday launched three new Pentium M processors running at higher clock speeds and cut prices on existing versions of the chip.
[June 3, 2003, 7:52]
AMD falls victim to Sars
News Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday predicted lower-than-expected second-quarter sales. In April, the chipmaker had seen a potential for increases in shipments of its Athlon XP PC processor and its flash memory products from the levels of...
[June 25, 2003, 8:05]
Centrino driving profits for Intel
News Sales of laptop computers helped push massive sales of Intel chips during the last three months, allowing the chipmaker to report one of its highest grossing quarters ever. The company also noted that average selling price was slightly lower...
[July 20, 2005, 9:55]
Intel revs up notebook chips
News The chipmaker, which slashed prices on its mobile Pentium 4 and Celeron chips on Sunday, launched a new flagship 2.4GHz Pentium 4-M chip for notebooks. The chipmaker also boosted the clock speed of its mobile Celeron processor, issuing a new 2GHz...
[January 15, 2003, 9:47]
Intel switches off TV plans
News The chipmaker said on Monday that it will not come out with a chip for making inexpensive large televisions this year and that it will rework the chip that has been in development for a later commercial release.
[August 17, 2004, 8:50]
